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Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1887-01-01
House and Home

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ever, impute the whole offence TO either
side; indeed, there may be no inten-
tional offensive act, but simply the fric-
ton of inharmonious natures, the greatest
sufferer being not necessarily the woman,
but the one possessing the most sensitive
nervous organization. This is one cause
of the early fading out of our American
women-this and the burden of heavy
household duties, the multitude of family
cares. know it is sad to be young,
fresh, and active, and in few years to
be old, faded, and forlorn, with a weight
of care never lifted from aching shout
ders, and the duties of six pressing upon
one feeble pair Of hands. It is sad to
see, inexpresslbly more sad must it be to
experience. Irecall a dozen, at least, of
these hopeless women whom once knew
as fresh young girls and yet I think of
the husband of one of these Fastening
home from his desk and the long COL
umn OF vexatious figures to take the
ailing, fretful child from the arms of the
weary wife and mother.
Sometimes this fading of woman's
beauty is unavoidable. Poverty is hard
to bear, but, after all, much is the result
of placing our standard in dress, and liv-
ing beyond our means; so much that
have sometimes thought the fixed classes
in the Old World, with their unalterable
customs and costumes, really blessed.
O sisters when will you learn that
simple dress of inexpensive material
neatly fitted, home surroundings suited
to your meanS-which your neighoors
know as well as yourselves-will do
more to win admiration and respect, to
say nothing of comfort and happiness,
than silks and Satins, velvets and laces. in
which you appear simply out OF Charac-
ter and i'll at ease? This striving after
the unattainable is killing our women !:
living in houses beyond their means,
poorly, if at all, supplied with servants :;
buying the most expensive materials,
leaving no surplus sum TO pay for the
making of garments; following the con-
slant changes of fashion; and when
some one, with merciful intent, provides
a sewing-machine, filing the leisure
time it should have given with endless
tpcking, rufling, and embroidery, till
what was intended as a blessing has be-
come almost curse A woman should
devote d reasonable amount of both fine
and thought to her personal appearance.
R1lt - GpCtrOyy II,
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1887-01-01

to produce the desired effect than any
amount of expensive material and trim
ming alone.
New CooKERY.-An English gentle
man has invented new form Of heat
conductor for cooking the interior parts
of joints Of meat, poultry or fish stimuli
taneously with the outer parts. Flesh is
known to be a very bad conductor of
heat, therefore in all methods of cooking
now in use, if the exterior parts are per-
fectly cooked, the interior parts are
found to be much underdone, with cor
responding loss of the nutritious Juices
of the flesh, The object of this inven-
ton is to prov ide means by which the
interior parts may be cooking simulta
neously with the outer parts. This is
effected by metallic conductors which
conduct the exterior heat to the interior
parts, and thereby produce great saw
ing of fuel, time and food, besides which
the juices of the meat are conserved so
that the cooked meat is much more pal
atable and whole some. The forms of
heat conductors that have been found by
Iexperiment most effective for roasting
and baking are pointed blades of copper,
upon which are fixed rather large gla-
oular heads of malleable iron from which
conductors are now made. The iron
head is left covered with natural black
oxide, to be in the best state to absorb
heat. The blade is timed to make it
more wholesome when in contact with
the flesh, These conductors are in
serted through the thickest parts of the
joint, the head standing out an inch or
SO. In this manner the head absorbs
the surrounding heat at the same rate as
the exterior parts of the Joint, and as the
copper blade is good conductor, it con-
veys this heat to the interior parts. For
boiling, slightly curved heads to the
conductors are used, which are timed
all over. Experiments show that before
brisk fire, in an oven or in boiling,
that one-third of the time is saved by
the use of these conductors, with about
ten per cent less wasted of the Joint,
with the best possible effect upon the
taste of the meat, and it is thought bv
the inventor that the system is capable of
producing great national economy.
a lady writer says: "It | might ad-
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Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1887-01-01

ment, as we women say, will do more
to produce the desired effect than any
amount of expensive material and trim
ming alone.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1887-01-01

A lady writer says: at | might ad-
wise as to the kind of story books tina
should be given to young girls, I shout,
say let them be such as give pure, ma /
uraI views of life and character. Lett !,
moral be suggested rather thar dire, e
DO not be uneasy if the heroine gets i, 1t,
mischief occasionally. A girl that is al
ways good is an anomaly; perfectio n O
character is unusual, and light wit bou
shadow IS dazzling to the human vi sion
Above all, let the books be cheerfu No
sad"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
The Prince of Wales Heir.

In everything except the indispen.
sable tawny beard that falls like a roll
of dead gold silk to the extremity of a
massive chest, Prince Albert Victor,
the eldest son of the Prince of Wales,
models himself on Ouida's heroes. He
is as fond of knickknacks as a lady.
His private apartments are the nearest
approach to the talented but vulgar
authoress's ideal of a young guards
mans rooms. He would NOS brush his
hair otherwise than with an ivory
backed brush to save his life. Eau dc
Cologne and other perfumes have their
place in his bath. To write a note on
paper that was not the triumph of the
perfumer's art, would, in his own inn
agination, be unworthy of his tastes
and position. He has started in life,
in fact, as an exquisite of the George
". type; but luckily for himself and
for the nation, he is preserved from
some of the most Objectionable traits
of the First Gentleman's" character
by the sensitive shvness of his dispo-
sition. He differs again from most ex-
quisites in having a praiseworthy de-
sire to pay promptly for the %luxuries
in which he INDUCES. Indeed, he
worries his attendants to worry his
tra~despeople to send in their bills
sharp, and frets and fumes if the as
tute shopkeeper-alive to the value of
having the future King of England
upon their books within decent limits
delay in delivering their accounts.
Like his father, he gets his clothes
and plenty of them-from Poole.
Prince Albert Victor's dea of digni-
fed multi is a frock coat and lavender
or gray trousers. He seldom wears a
cutaway coat, and even when travel
ling hardly eve appears in a suit of
dittoes. On the whole, he may be de-
seribed as a very stately and solemn
young man.-L0ndOn Letter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY, SEPT. s, 1887.
An Ohio Ghost.

There is q highly respectable family
by the name of Mark living in the Vi
cinity of Sugar creek, Fayettc county,
Ohio, who claim to have had n remark
able experience for many years; and
what they willingly relate may be of
interest to many readers. The family
settled in the ueighborhood in an early
day, when this section of the state was
sparsely settled. On the banks of
Sugar creek some woodman had built
a frame structure, and for some years
had taken up his abode within it.
Eventually, however, changes occur-
red, and Mr.. Mark took possession of
the house. One very warm night while
sleeping alone in an upper room, he
states that he was looking toward the
open window, unable to sleep, when a
stately, serious-looking man in broad
cloth glided into the room and ap-
preached his bed. The apparition-
for so he regarded it-had a strange
unearthly expression of countenance,
and didn't use its feet in moving about.
Mr.. Mark was utterly terrified, and, as
he says, leaped almost to the foot of
the stairs and hurried from the build
ing to the home of a neighbor as rapid
" as his feet could take him. Some
time afterward, while workmen were
procuring gravel from a pit near by,
they came upon a barrel in which was
secreted a hideous skeleton, which be-
came the basis of many unpleasant
coniectures. On another occasion.
after the gentleman referred to had be-
come the head of a large and prosper
Gus family, while some of the children
were playing about the k~itchen-door,
a cadaverous object, with q strange
livid complexion and long outstretehed
arms, o 5 apparently out of the ground
Immediately in front of them. The
affrighted children ran into the house
to their mother, screaming, and I'M
able to make known what they had
seen. 1t was not long after this affair
until one of the daughters died. A
few months elapsed, and the mother
was awakened about 4 o'clock n
morning by an ominous sound in the
front yard. She arose to investigate.
About midway between the house and
the street gate her deceased daughter
seemed to be standing, as if in trouble,
and as if she were searching for some
thing that had been lost. The mother
says that it all seemed so real to her
that she attempted to approach her
daughter but was disappointed by see
ing her suddenly vanish. The entire
family are firm in the belief that all
these circumstances were real, and
nothing will make them more iudig-
nant than to call them in question.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
Paddock Bracelets for the Girls.

..Chain bracelets are very fashion,
able now for girls engaged to be
married." said a jeweler to a New
York Mail reporter. Some have a
paddock attached. Tie lover places
the chain about the wrist whose pulses
peat for him, locks the dainty symbol
of bondage, and wears the key on his
watch-ehain. Ladies who wear their
bonds lightly find it easy to slip the
pretty evidence of engaged affections
far up the arm and hide it beneath the
sleeve when they wish to please others
than their Romeos. The big con-
spicuous diamond ring is not so easily
hidden. Some of the chain bracelets
are of beaten gold and others of nugget
gold. Some are made Is a simple
chain, while in others the links are
beautifully engraved. Some have dia-
mionds and precious stones set in the
links. We made a very novel bracelet
recently. Ii was an acrostic ornament,
ii one may use that term, 1t was a
eiiaia with a paddock. but the middle
seven links were nuggets with precious
stones in each one. The first letter of
the stones read: ID. Z. A. r. E. S. t..
and the stones where placed in the
order: Diamond, Emerald. Amethyst,
Ruby, Emerald. Sapphire, Topaz.
This bracelet cost $3.50 and was ons of
the handsomest | have rer seem"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

When the conditions Of atmospheric
instability have gtSea birth ~ a tor
nado. the fact Is anneanced To the OBJ
server by u sudden gathering ul dark,
swift-whirling clouds, from which de-
pend n %wrjth}ng, Sefpsat.liae body
formed of condensed Vapor, This
writing column extend rapidly down
ward until il touches the earth, When
IL attainS the surface 1t becomes audi~
BILE from the violent lending actions
which il creates upon that surface, As
soon rs the whirl is created it begins
to move away, generally toward the
nortileaSt-for the evident reason that
the upper cold layer Of air against
which il originates has, IN the north.
ern hemisphere, u movement in that
direction.
In its path over the surface. the cir
cling movement of the writhlng air
and the suction action of the partial
vaeuum in the central portion of the
shaft combine To bring about an ex-
treme devastation. On the outside of
the whirl the air. which rushes in a
circling path toward the vortex. over
turns all movable objects, and in the
center these objects. if they are not too
heavy, are sucked up rs by a great
air-pump. Thus the roofs of houses,
bodies of men and animals. may be
lifted to great elevations. until they
are tossed by the tumultuous move
ment beyond the limits of the ascend
ing currents and fall back upon the
earth. Where the center of the whiri-
wind passes over a building. the sud-
den decrease in the pressure of the
outer air often causes the atmosphere
which is contained within the walls
suddenly to press against the sides of
the structure. so that three sides are
quickly driven outward as if by a
charge of gunpowder.
1t is not unlikely that the diminu-
ton of pressure brought about by the
passage of the interior of the whirl
over a building may be about as much
as is indicated by the fall of four inches
in the barometer. This is equivalent
to Il change in the pressure amounting
to about three hundred pounds to the
square foot. This force operates to
burst out the walls of n building. 1t
is not improbable that the diminution
of pressure may be much greater than
this, but even the mount named is
sufficient to account for the bursting
out of the frail-walled structures which
these devastating movements encount-
err in the western parts of the United
States.-SeribRer'S Magazine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
A Chinese Agony Column.

The North China Herald gives one or
two very curious specimens of adver-
tisements which apper in the Chinese
papers. One is from a mother to her
son who has run away from home, and
it is worded as follows: Take care
that you are not struck down by light
ming. Your mother weeps bitterly for
you as she pens these lines in order
that they may be read by her son.
When you ran away from home on the
30th of the eighth moon, the people of
the shop came and asked US what had
become of you; it was thus that we
learned your flight. 1 nearly died of
fright, and since then my food. and
sleep have benefited me but little. I
am still crying and moaning. l have
received your letter which has come
from beyond the horizon, but it does
not tell me where / al find you. l
am % at almost the last extremity,
and our family has had to put up with
cruel insult from stranfiers. If youd do
not return / can stand all this no long
er and shall assuredly put an end to
my existence, in which case you would
be in danger of being struck down by
lightning. If you return, no matter in
what way, all will be arranged. l
have even invented q plan by which
your father will know nothing of your
escapade. My life or death is a ques-
ton of only a few more days. l en-
treat all well-disposed persons to
spread abroad the advertisement, so
that may be read by all whom it may
oncern. They viii thus earn a pro-
fusion of hidden merit. Written by a
woman of Soncho-Take care that you
are not struck by lightning!" A
second advertisement is from a hus-
band whose wife has run away with a
man whom she had met in a tea-house.
The advertisement sets out at a great
length the circumstances attending the
elopement, and offers a reward of 500
to anyone giving him information as
to her whereabouts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

Maj. Haggarty was in the city yes
terday, and while seated upon one of
the red-leathered ottomans at the
Delayau reeled of this story. Il never
carried a bludgeon in my life" said he,
save a sword while | was in the army,
and that was perfectly harmless in my
hands. In n of my political can
vases, a friend of mine remarked:
You are out all hours of the night and
are you never afraid that you may be
assaulted for the money you have on
Your person or your watch? oh, no!
l said, but | must tell you that the con-
slant talk of danger kept me thinking
that it would be as well, perhaps, to
be armed to a certain extent, so |
looked around among my sticks and l
found a venerable blackthorn which /
thought might serve the purpose. |
hadn't long to wait. One night as !
was returning to my home through a
dark street l noticed two men standing
in a gateway, and just as | got up to
them one of them with u quick move
ment stepped out. thought that if |
acted at all / must act promptly, so |
hauled off and gave him the entire bene-
fit of the cudgel. Down he went. and /,
thinking / had done my whole duty in
protecting myself from assault, soon
found my door. Next morning as /
reached the corner of my street l found
a friend of mine with what appeared
to be the map of some strange country
on his head in sticking plaster, and on
making the inquiry: What has hap
pened to you? he informed me that he
had been talking with a friend of his
the night before, in the milkman's
gate. and had babe him good night and
| stepped out across to his W house,
when a burly ruffian stretched him with
a blow of a bludgeon. He said, when
he came to himself and found his
watch all right and his bit of money,
he concluded that it was an act of
private vengeance. With fear and
trembling ] inquired whom he sus-
pected, when he answered that he had
had a few words with an old friend at
a recent picnic and had had a clinch,
and, although he thought it was all
quoted and forgotten, he had conclud.
ed that this man was the one who had
committed the assault upon him. The
club-struck man." the major concluded,
twas always my friend, and worked
like a beaver for my election when
ever l was nominated for any office
Albany argus.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

Ladies, buy the Eagle Steam
Washer; it is the best, cheapest,
lightest and most durable and per-
feet washing machine ever made.
No iron to brake, no wood to leak.
We don't make agents pay for terri
tory, but give them all the territory
they want and sell them washers low
er than they can buy many worthless
washers at. Beware of peddlers sell
ing inferior washers and representing
them as improvements over the Eagle.
Retail price $500. Write to G. l..
Ferris for an agency.
Champion and Osborne Machines.
Extras and repairs always on hand.
3-1yr.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
Great Bell.

An official notice has been published
of the great bell for the Cathedral of
Cologne, the solemn Inauguration of
which took place some days ago with
great pomp. The bell weighs $1,000
kilos, or about &c tons Is hundred
weight. The clapper alone weighs
800 kilos, or nearly 15a hundredweight.
Its perpendicular height is almost 143
feet; its diameter at the mouth nearly
III feet. Twenty-Five cannon taken
from the French were assigned by the
Emperor William for its manufacture;
5000 kilos of tin were added.
1t was east by Andreas Hamm of
%Franenthal, and q, 900 marks f1,050)
were paid for the casting. 1t will be
known as the Kaiserglocke. Emper-
or's bell as the two other large bells in
the cathedral bear the epithets, re-
spectively, of Pretiosa (precious) and
Speciosa beautifully this one is styled
Gloriosa. 1t bears above an inscrip-
ton recording that William, the
most august Emperor of the Germans
and King of the Prussians. mindful of
the heavenly help granted to him
whereby he conducted the late French
war to a prosperous issue and restored
the German Empire, caused cannon
taken from the French to be devoted to
founding a bell to be hung in the
derful cathedral then approaching
completion A likeness of st. Peter,
the name patron of the church, is on
the side, beneath which is a quatrain
in the style of the medieval ~conceits,
praying that, as devouts heart rise
~heavenward at hearing the sound of
the bell, so may the doorkeeper of
Heaven open wide the gates of the
celestial mansion. On the opposite side
is inscribed a sestet in German, of
which the translation is:
am called the Emperor's bell;
Iproclaim the Emperors honor:
On the holy watch-tower / am placed.
pray for the German Empire,
That peace and protection
God may ever grant to it.
The bell was solemnly blessed in the
cathedral by the Archbishop of
Cologne according to the elaborate
ritual set out in the Pontificale Ro-
manum. The ceremony was very long.
many psalms being ehanted by the
clergy and choristers while the bell was
being sprinkled with blessed water
and anointed with chrism, and the por-
ton of st. Luke. x. SS-42, was chanted
by a deacon. Incense and myrrh were.
burned within it and many symbolical
rites performed. The opinions of ex-
rerts are divided as to whether the
note which the bell sounds is G sharp
or D.-LoRdoD Times.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
CHEAP MONEY.

We have unlimited sums of Eas-
tern money to loan at a low rate of
interest on improved lands for a
term of five years with privilege of
paying 500 or any multiple thereof
at any: interest pay day. Interest
payable annually or semi.annually to
suit borrower. We can also supply
you with home money at all times.
kIGoRE & HOWELL,
Loan and Real Estate Agents,
over Saving Bank, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
Senator Conger's Romance.

When Senator Conger of Michigan
was a young man he was engaged to a
young woman. They quarreled. sepa-
rated, and in time each married.
Twenty years after he, a widower, was
in Congress; she, q widow, sat in the
gallery and listened to hie speech. It
was the first time they had seen each
other since their early days. She sent
her card 10 him; he came at once to
the gallery. After a little talk she
asked him toseall ON her at her friends,
Mrs. Dahlgren's. He said he would
call II he conld call as he used to in
those long past days of youth. In q
few weeks they Were married at Mrs.
Admiral Dahlgren's observation-disclosures
Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
Typhoid, Scarlet and Yellow Feyers,
Measles, Diphthersa, Smallpox,
Tholara- So

Darbys Prophylactic Fluid will de-
s.roy the infection of all fevers and
all contagious and infectious diseases.
Will keep the atmosphere of any sick
DON pure and wholesome, absorbing
and destroying unhealthy %efiiuvia
and contagion resulting therefrom.
Will neutralize any bad smell what
ever, not by Disgusting it, but by de-
striving it
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
TO THE FARMERS.

We wish to insure your property
against fire and lightning in as good
companies as are in the world, at the
following rates:
Fifty cents per 800 for one year.
s1.00 per 500 for three years.
$3.50 per 500 for five years.
Don't pay % to so per cent higher
than above rates and give your note
for the premium, which soon falls into
hands of attorneys and banks for
collection. KILGoRE e HOWELL,
Insurance Agents, Mexico. Mo.
Over Savings Bank. 33tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

<sThcre is often o notion lays an
exchange, ..that scholars are not prae-
tieal men. and they cannot get down
TO the practical plane of iife." O,
psilaw, we know better than that, ard
.ye want to put in a defense right here
for the college boys. We know sew
eraI young mea who graduated with
big honors. who are cutting stone
aud making shoes in plain, ordinary
striped clothes.-Bismdrek If16use.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08
MONEY! MONEY!!
$500, $500, $1,000, $4,000
$4,000.

Good farm loans can now be placed
for three or five years time at fair
rates in Audrain, Boone, Galloway,
Randolph, Monroe, Rails and Pike
counties. Apply to
J. P. CLARK, Mexico, Mo-,
Agent for eastern capital and old
est resi- estate and loan agent in Cen
trail Missouri. 45-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

Farmers, write to Ferris & Son,
Mexico, for prices of Farm Imple.
ments. They can save You big mon.
ey, as they are headquarters for oil
kinds of farm implements, wagons,
buggies, self-hinders, cuitiyetoss,
barbed wire, washing machines, and
everything in the hardware line. Re.
psirs for Champion and Osborne
machines. 3-1yr.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

DIR. Turner, V. s., Ct Glasgow, Il
graduate of the veterinary school at
Columbia, is in the city. He has
concluded to locate here and will
at once open an office. DIR. Turner
is a pleasant young man and comes
well recommended. The LEDGER
wishes him
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

The Macon (Ga-) Telegraph thinks
that latter all there is no chance for
improvement over the simple picnic
kiss Has the editor of that paper
VI participated in the moonlight-on-
the-lake kiss?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-08

II somebody will rise and explain
how it happens that a flannel shirt
will stupidity persist IN creeping up
about a fellows neck, while his socks
perversely festoon themselves around
his shoe-tops, he may not achieve i'm
mortality, but he deserves to do so.